SPEAKERS Stuart Cohen Executive Director, TransForm Sanjay Dastoor Co-Founder, Boosted Boards and CEO, Skip Scooters Megan Rose Dickey Senior Reporter, TechCrunch This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 20, 2018.

SPEAKERS Xavier Becerra Attorney General of California; Former U.S. Representative In Conversation with Scott Shafer Senior Editor of California Politics and Government Desk, KQED This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 12th, 2018

SPEAKERS Bob Kriegel Ph.D., Author; Sports Psychologist; Lecturer This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 11th, 2018

SPEAKERS David Peritz Professor of Politics, Sarah Lawrence College This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 10th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Joseph Tartakovsky James Wilson Fellow in Constitutional Law at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy; Author, The Lives of the Constitution This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 9th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Malcolm Nance Retired Intelligence Officer; Author, The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin’s Spies Are Winning Control of America and Dismantling the West In Conversation with Quentin Hardy Head of Editorial, Google Cloud This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 9th, 2018.…

SPEAKERS Betty Cremmins Director, Carbon Disclosure Project West Danielle Fugere President & Chief Counsel, As You Sow John Streur President & CEO, Calvert Research and Management Portions of this program were recorded at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California.

SPEAKERS Elliot Kallen Financial Accountant; Wealth Manager; Founder, A Brighter Day This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 2nd, 2018.

SPEAKERS Rita Baghdadi, Co-Director, My Country No More Noel Dockstader, Co-Director, Point of No Return Jeremiah Hammerling, Co-Directo, My Country No More Quinn Kanaly, Co-Director, Point of No Return Sriram Murali, Director/Producer, Saving the Dark Sally Rubin, Co-Director, Hillbilly Portions of this program were recorded at The Commonwealt ...…

SPEAKERS Laurel Rosenhall Political Reporter, CALmatters; Former Reporter, The Sacramento Bee Ben Christopher Elections Reporter Dan Walters Columnist, Political Author, TV News Commentator Dave Lesher Co-Founder, CEO and Editor in Chief, CALmatters; Former Political Writer and State Capitol Reporter, Los Angeles Times—Moderator This program wa ...…

SPEAKERS Alex Burns National Political Correspondent, The New York Times Nate Cohn Domestic Correspondent for "The Upshot," The New York Times Maggie Haberman White House Reporter, The New York Times; Pulitzer Prize Recipient 2018 Adam Nagourney Los Angeles Bureau Chief, The New York Times—Moderator This program was recorded live at Marines' Me ...…

SPEAKERS Dan Pfeiffer Co-host, Pod Save America; Former White House Communications Director; Author, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump In Conversation with Clara Jeffery Editor in Chief, Mother Jones This program was recorded live at Santa Clara University on June 27th, 2018.…

SPEAKERS Spencer Christian Weather Anchor, ABC 7 Television, San Francisco; Author, You Bet Your Life: How I Survived Jim Crow Racism, Hurricane Chasing, and Gambling In conversation with Dan Ashley ABC 7 Television Anchor; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on J ...…

SPEAKERS Stacey Abrams Candidate for Governor of Georgia; Former Minority Leader, Georgia House; Author, Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change In Conversation with Holly Kernan Vice President of News, KQED This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 27th, 2018.…

SPEAKERS Keynote Introduction: Norman Mineta Secretary (ret.) U.S. Department of Transportation Keynote Address: Laurie Berman Director, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Featured Speaker: Asha Agrawal, Ph.D. Director, Mineta Transportation Institute National Transportation Finance Center Roger Dickinson Executive Director, Tra ...…

SPEAKERS Larry Gerston Ph.D., Political Analyst, NBC Bay Area; Professor Emeritus of Political Science, San Jose State University; Twitter @lgerston Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez Political Reporter, San Francisco Examiner; Twitter @FitzTheReporter James L. Taylor Ph.D., Political Analyst; Professor of Politics, University of San Francisco; Twitter @ ...…

SPEAKERS Nitsana Darshan-Leitner Attorney; Israeli activist; Founder and Director, Israel Law Center; Author, Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism’s Money Masters Robert Rosenthal Board Member and Former Executive Director, The Center for Investigative Reporting - Moderator This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in ...…

SPEAKERS Max Brooks Fellow, Modern War Institute at West Point; Co-Editor, Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict; Author, World War Z ML Cavanaugh Fellow, Moderrn War Institute at West Point; Co-Editor, Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict In Conversation with Brian Fishman Poli ...…

SPEAKERS Ben Rhodes Former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, Author, The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House; Twitter @brhodes In Conversation with Audrey Cooper Editor in Chief, San Francisco Chronicle This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 25th, 2018.…

SPEAKERS Michelle Meow Host, "The Michelle Meow Show" (Radio and TV); President, SFPride; Twitter @msmichellemeow John Zipperer Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable, The Commonwealth Club—Co-Host Ali Marrero-Calderon Honoree at SF Pride parade for her lifetime of commitment and involvement in the LGBTQ community Jewelle Gomez Recipient of a ...…

SPEAKERS Roseann Lake Author, Leftover in China; Television Reporter; Cuba Correspondent, The Economist This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 21st, 2018.

SPEAKERS Marcia Ishii-Eiteman Senior Scientist, Director Grassroots Science Program, Pesticide Action Network Scott Kennedy Filmmaker, Food Evolution John Purcell VP and Global R&D Lead, Monsanto Company Austin Wilson Environmental Health Program Manager, As You Sow This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May ...…

SPEAKERS Hrair Balian Director, Conflict Resolution Program, The Carter Center George Smith Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors—Program Chair Skip Rhodes Past Chair, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 21st, 2018.…

Speakers Carl Zimmer Columnist, The New York Times; Author, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity; Twitter: @carlzimmer Lisa Krieger Science journalist, Bay Area News Group - Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at Schultz Cultural Hall in Palo Alto on June 20th, 2018.…

Speakers Katrina Lake CEO and Founder, Stitch Fix Lauren Schiller Host, Inflection Point—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 20th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Dr. Thomas Seyfried Cancer Researcher; Author, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease; Professor, Boston College This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 20th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Bob Kocher M.D., Partner, Venrock; Adjunct Professor, Stanford In conversation with Lenny Mendonca Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 19th, 2018.…

Speakers Gabriel Cabrera Transgender LGBTQ+ Community Activist; KQED Youth Takeover Speaker; Casa CHE Program Participant; Junior, Arise High School Caitlyn Clark Teen Poetry Slam Grand Champion; Founder, Intersectional Gender Equity and Feminism Club at Benicia High School; Incoming Freshman, Yale University Kiere Garrett HOPE SF Phoenix Champ ...…

SPEAKERS Richard Munson Author, Tesla: Inventor of the Modern This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 18th, 2018.

Speakers Michael Eric Dyson Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University; Author, What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America In Conversation with Ros Gold-Onwude Basketball Analyst, TNT and NBA TV; Former Reporter, Golden State Warriors Si ...…

Speakers Daniel Lurie CEO, Tipping Point Community Heather McLeod Grant Co-Founder, Open Impact; Co-Author, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy Charles M. Collins President and Chief Executive Officer, YMCA of San Francisco Rick Happy Principal and Managing Director, CCS Fundraising—Moderator This event was recorded in-f ...…

SPEAKERS Katharine Mach Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University Solomon Hsiang Chancellor's Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Portions of this event were recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May 29th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Dr. Ruth Shapiro Founder and Chief Executive, The Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society; Author, Pragmatic Philanthropy: Asian Charity Explained Dr. Gloria Duffy President and CEO, The Commonwealth Club — Chair Jack Wadsworth Co-chairman, Asia Society Northern California; Former Chair, Morgan Stanley Asia — Moderator This event was ...…

SPEAKERS Darnell Moore Author, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America; Editor at Large, Cassius;. Co-managing Editor, The Feminist Wire; Editor, The Feminist Wire Books (a series of University of Arizona Press); Writer-in-residence, Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice at Columbia Univer ...…

SPEAKERS Rachel Bronson, Ph.D. President and CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; Former Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Philip Yun Executive Director, Ploughshares Fund — Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 13th, 2018…

SPEAKERS Mary Twomey Aging Program Specialist, Administration for Community Living, Office of Elder Justice and Adult Protective Services; Former Co-director, National Center on Elder Abuse and the Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect, UC Irvine This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Franc ...…

SPEAKERS Timothy Hampton Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French, and Director, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 11th, 2018…

This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 11th, 2018

SPEAKERS Anita Stangl Humanitarian; Founder, Alliance for Smiles Jonathan Curiel Journalist—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 8th, 2018

SPEAKERS Joshua Pollock Author, The Heartfulness Way; Heartfulness Practitioner This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 7th, 2018

SPEAKERS John Carreyrou Investigative Reporter, The Wall Street Journal; Author, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup; Twitter: @JohnCarreyrou In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt Lecturer, UC Berkeley School of Law This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 7th, 2018…

SPEAKERS Lisa Brinkmann Executive Director, Marin Villages Linda Burroughs Executive Director, Villages of San Mateo County Kate Hoepke Executive Director, San Francisco Village This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 6th, 2018

SPEAKERS Gavin Grimm Transgender rights activist Abdi Soltani Executive Director, Northern California ACLU — Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 5th, 2018

SPEAKERS Joseph Rodota Political Consultant; Author, The Watergate: Inside America’s Most Infamous Address This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May 29th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Jeff Adachi San Francisco Public Defender Alicia Garza Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter; Special Projects Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Activist; Writer Nikki Jones Professor of African-American Studies, UC Berkeley; Author, Between Good and Ghetto Mina Kim News Anchor and Friday's "Forum" Host, KQED—Moderator This event ...…

SPEAKERS Bob Butler Reporter, KCBS Radio; Twitter @bobbutler7 C.W. Nevius Columnist, Santa Rosa Press Democrat; Former Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle; Twitter @cwnevius Mollie Reilly Assignment Editor, HuffPost; Twitter @molliereilly This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on June 4th, 2018.…

SPEAKERS Mark Kurlansky Author, MILK! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas Anna Lappé Author, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May 16th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Travis Allen California State Assemblyman (R-Huntington Beach) Gavin Newsom California Lt. Governor; former mayor, San Francisco (D) Antonio Villaraigosa Former mayor, Los Angeles (D) Felicia Marcus Chair, California State Water Resources Control Board Portions of this program were recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisc ...…

SPEAKERS Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator, Our City San Francisco Stuart Flashman Environmental Attorney George Wooding President, Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May 31st, 2018.

Speakers Rukmini Callimachi Reporter and Host of “Caliphate,” The New York Times Andy Mills Reporter, The New York Times Sheera Frenkel Reporter, The New York Times—Moderator Mohammed M. Hafez, Ph.D. Chair, National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonweal ...…